I don't see what's so triffic about creating people as people and then gettin' upset 'cos they act like people. — Terry Pratchett Copy Share Image
Gods don't like people not doing much work. People who aren't busy all the time might start to think. — Terry Pratchett Copy Share Image
It's always surprising to be reminded that while you're watching and thinking about people, all knowing and superior, they're watching and thinking… — Terry Pratchett Copy Share Image
Colon thought Carrot was simple. Carrot often struck people as simple. And he was. Where people went wrong was thinking that simple… — Terry Pratchett Copy Share Image
I should have learned this, she thought. I wanted to learn fire, and pain, but I should have learned people. — Terry Pratchett Copy Share Image
I've never really liked the Yanks. ... You can't trust people who pick up the ball all the time when they play football. — Terry Pratchett Copy Share Image
Knowledge is dangerous, which is why governments often clamp down on people who can think thoughts above a certain caliber. — Terry Pratchett Copy Share Image
People's whole lives do pass in front of their eye before they die. The process is called "Living". — Terry Pratchett Copy Share Image
One of the hardest lessons in young Sam's life had been finding out that the people in charge weren't in charge. It… — Terry Pratchett Copy Share Image
Belief is one of the most powerful organic forces in the multiverse. It may not be able to move mountains, exactly. But… — Terry Pratchett Copy Share Image
People who are rather more than six feet tall and nearly as broad across the shoulders often have uneventful journeys. People jump… — Terry Pratchett Copy Share Image
When people say "How do you write a book, how does it all happen?" I say, you line things up, and you… — Terry Pratchett Copy Share Image
All I am really promoting in the books is the Golden Rule, which I hope everybody knows to be "do as you… — Terry Pratchett Copy Share Image
First Thoughts are the everyday thoughts. Everyone has those. Second Thoughts are the thoughts you think about the way you think. People… — Terry Pratchett Copy Share Image
The thing about secrets is that they are usually best kept by just one person. That was the special thing about secrets.… — Terry Pratchett Copy Share Image
You are in favour of the common people?” said Dragon mildly. The common people?” said Vimes. “They’re nothing special. They’re no different… — Terry Pratchett Copy Share Image
The trouble with having an open mind, of course, is that people will insist on coming along and trying to put things… — Terry Pratchett Copy Share Image
The enemy isn’t men, or women, it’s bloody stupid people and no-one has the right to be stupid. — Terry Pratchett Copy Share Image
The universe clearly operates for the benefit of humanity. This can be readily seen from the convenient way the sun comes up… — Terry Pratchett Copy Share Image
That's the Ankh-Morpork instinct, Vimes thought. Run away, and then stop and see if anything interesting is going to happen to other… — Terry Pratchett Copy Share Image
Seven hundred thousand people who have dementia in this country are not heard. I'm fortunate; I can be heard. Regrettably, it's amazing… — Terry Pratchett Copy Share Image
Everything starts somewhere, though many physicists disagree. But people have always been dimly aware of the problem with the start of things.… — Terry Pratchett Copy Share Image
Things like crowns had a troublesome effect on clever folk; it was best to leave all the reigning to the kind of… — Terry Pratchett Copy Share Image
It's hard to explain," said Brutha. "But I think it's got something to do with how people should behave... you should do… — Terry Pratchett Copy Share Image
People flock in, nevertheless, in search of answers to those questions only librarians are considered to be able to answer, such as… — Terry Pratchett Copy Share Image
No clowns were funny. That was the whole purpose of a clown. People laughed at clowns, but only out of nervousness. The… — Terry Pratchett Copy Share Image
My agent pointed out one day that I had been quoted by a columnist in some American newspaper, and he noted with… — Terry Pratchett Copy Share Image
People were stupid, sometimes. They thought the Library was a dangerous place because of all the magical books, which was true enough,… — Terry Pratchett Copy Share Image
Om rubed his head. This wasn't god-like thinking. It seemed simpler when you were up here. It was all a game. You… — Terry Pratchett Copy Share Image
I saved a man's life once," said Granny. "Special medicine, twice a day. Boiled water with a bit of berry juice in… — Terry Pratchett Copy Share Image
Particles of raw inspiration sleet through the universe all the time. Every once in a while one of them hits a receptive… — Terry Pratchett Copy Share Image
Adventure! People talked about the idea as if it were something worthwhile, rather than a mess of bad food, no sleep and… — Terry Pratchett Copy Share Image
A lot hinges on the fact that, in most circumstances, people are not allowed to hit you with a mallet. They put… — Terry Pratchett Copy Share Image
Tiffany has been apprenticing as a witch by visiting people in need with her mentor. After meeting with one particularly sad case,… — Terry Pratchett Copy Share Image
The rising sun managed to peek around the vast column of smoke that forever rose from Ankh-Morpork, City of Cities, illustrating almost… — Terry Pratchett Copy Share Image
Everybody thinks the Government should be doing more about everything but just think how many of the bonuses which are quite rightly… — Terry Pratchett Copy Share Image
The point is that if a book that had been published three years ago started to sell twice as many all of… — Terry Pratchett Copy Share Image
And at the other end of the bar the world is full of the other type of person, who has a broken… — Terry Pratchett Copy Share Image
Oh, my dear Vimes, history changes all the time. It is constantly being re-examined and re-evaluated, otherwise how would we be able… — Terry Pratchett Copy Share Image
You can't go around building a better world for people. Only people can build a better world for people. Otherwise it's just… — Terry Pratchett Copy Share Image
“This one’s mental.’ ‘Eccentric.’ ‘What’s the difference?’ ‘A bag of cash.” — Terry Pratchett Copy Share
“But I did not return until half past four this morning and I distinctly remember stubbing my toe on the stairs. I am as… — Terry Pratchett Copy Share
“The universe contains any amount of horrible ways to be woken up, such as the noise of the mob breaking down the front door,… — Terry Pratchett Copy Share
“Someone broke from the scrum and, punching and kicking, staggered towards the Klatchian goal. "Isn't that man your butler?" said Ahmed. "Yes." "One of… — Terry Pratchett Copy Share
It's an interesting fact that fewer than 17 % of Real cats end their lives with the same name they started with. Much family… — Terry Pratchett Copy Share
Either dragons should exist completely or fail to exist at all, he felt. A dragon only half-existing was worse than the extremes. — Terry Pratchett Copy Share
“Magrat wondered what it was like, spending your whole life doing something you didn’t want to do. Like being dead, she considered, only worse,… — Terry Pratchett Copy Share
A hardback's harder at Christmas time because that's a good hardback buying time. — Terry Pratchett Copy Share
“There were more old people. The world was full of them,' said the wizard. 'Yes, I know. And now it's full of young people.… — Terry Pratchett Copy Share
“Hobson was big and heavyset, but not exactly fat; he was probably what you’d get if you shaved a bear.” — Terry Pratchett Copy Share
“There is a night that never comes to an end… The clock of the world turns under its own shadow. Midnight is a moving… — Terry Pratchett Copy Share
“You'd like Freedom, Truth, and Justice, wouldn't you, Comrade Sergeant?' said Reg encouragingly. 'I'd like a hard-boiled egg,' said Vimes, shaking the match out.… — Terry Pratchett Copy Share
“You are not apprehensive, are you? I can't detect no trace of fear none whatsoever Roomy cranium all possible videos of all possible outcomes… — Terry Pratchett Copy Share
